The Brown Brick Road

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Telluride day 2

On Monday we were up and ready to hit the slopes!

We had another bluebird day! Sun shining, warm temps, perfect day!

Doesn’t get any better than this!

I went down a few moguls but quickly learned my knee did not like them! I was happy to take the long way around and wait for the experts at the bottom of the double blues!

We stopped in Mountain Village for lunch…

By the afternoon, the snow was slushy and the grownup legs were tired! We parked ourselves in some comfortable chairs and let the kids do a few runs on their own….

We were happy to see these three skiers come down the run!

That night we took the gondola to Allred’s for dinner…

While the view was great, the overall experience was meh.

But still a great day on the slopes!

Telluride

We just got back from a great week of skiing in Telluride for spring break! Considering my knee surgery just 10.5 weeks ago, I’m mostly thankful that we all made it back home injury free! hooray! We drove to Atlanta last Friday night and spent the night close to the airport and had a stress-free flight Saturday morning…

It was a long travel day – fly to Montrose and then take an hour and a half drive into Telluride. We finally got there around 4:00, got checked into Mountain Lodge, and then took the gondola into town at Cosmopolitan which was really good.

The next morning it was ski time! The day got off to a slow start with a little pass mixup – we had our passes but we were apparently supposed to get a reservation? Robert got it all sorted out but we didn’t get out on the mountain with our instructor, Mark, until about 10am. That’s ok though – we were happy to be there and it was a beautiful day!

We spent the day getting our ski legs back and learning the mountain. Mark was very nice and gave us all some good tips.

Overall it was a super successful day on the mountain! My knee was aching by 4:00 but it made it through…and Mark’s tips came in handy to keep it as safe as possible. That night we went into town and tried to eat at Brown Dog Pizza but it was a 2 hour wait! Our tired, cranky crew wasn’t up for that so we headed back to Mountain Village and got some good pizza at Crazy Elk. Day one done and dusted!

Regions Field

Maxwell is doing Spartan Baseball Club again and Tuesday night they got to play out at Regions Field where the Barons play! I didn’t get to go last year – Robert went – but I think I had much better weather than they had last year!

It’s pretty neat to see Maxwell up on the big screen and out there on that big field!

He has a strained arm muscle right now which we had actually been to Andrews about the day before…

so he wasn’t playing in the field but he did bat. He had a good hit to 3rd but got out at first.

A fun night at the big ballfield!

Go Spartans!

Weekend

This past weekend we had plenty of fun mixed in with some weather anxiety! They were predicting a huge storm to roll through Birmingham Saturday afternoon with a very high probability of strong winds, giant hail, and major tornadoes. I spent much of the weekend prepping – moving things into GJ’s basement to keep them safe. We had our plan in place – helmets ready, flashlights and weather radio charged, and James Spann on the tv! Thankfully it really ended up missing Birmingham all together. We just had a regular old thunderstorm that wasn’t even that bad. Phew. I then spent Sunday putting everything back in place! I’d much rather spend my morning doing that than picking up from storm damage. Other than that, we did have a good dinner at the club Friday night…

while Spencer watched the AL game with some friends.

Maxwell was out and about but here’s a cute pic of him and some friends ice skating a few weeks ago!

One interesting fact we did learn during the storm? There’s a Samantha, AL!

See you tomorrow!